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An excellent day of dance yesterday, so of course I failed to take any photos… just the right weather (hot but not too hot, slight cooling breeze not windy, not wet), sides quite different in styles, appreciative audiences, and very pleasant music session in the pub afterwards.

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Same goes for tomorrow’s Red Cuthbert Day of Dance at Bedford Fringe Festival, should any mastodonians happen to be there, though it’ll be a different mallard on a different melodeon… come and say “hi” if you like.

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Just a day to go before Red Cuthbert Day of Dance, part of the Bedford Fringe Festival - five morris sides will be starting at the Faces on Silver Street at 1030, with various spots throughout the town until we finish at Riverside Square, 1530-1600. We’ll all be doing turns in the Quarry Theatre Garden between 1200 and 1330, and after the last dance spot there will be a music session in The Hidden Barrel.

If you’re local, do come and see us & our fellow dancers!

Red Cuthbert will be joined by Golden Hare, Letchworth Morris, Queen’s Oak and Wicket Brood.

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My one video from yesterday, of Hemlock Morris dancing Hell’s Bells -

https://youtu.be/YC6NKWlR-qE

Not videoed: Red Cuthbert Morris, Bedford Morris Men

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A good time dancing yesterday, including busking our way through Bluebells for a massed dance - none of us having done it outside an Ale in about eight years - and my finally almost getting Bonny Green (no one actually really knows it, do they?), good crowd reactions, and a nice social afternoon afterwards.
The one video I took on the day, of Hemlock Morris dancing Hell’s Bells, to follow…

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If you’re going to the Bedford River Festival today, keep an eye out for morris dancing along the embankment, from 1130 until we can no longer hold the space against the crowds. All three of the town’s sides will be there - Red Cuthbert Morris, Hemlock Morris and the Bedford Morris Men.

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We’re heading off to dance out in 20 minutes . We might be insane. I’m taking a rucksack full of chilled water rather than my usual couple of beers, mind.

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For some reason I couldn't add an alt text. It is a video of a man with a beard saying "Join Red Cuthbert and talk shit in the pub afterwards" and then cuts to a brass plaque saying "Bullshit corner" with a Red Cuthbert beermat tucked under the edge.